The Mercy Model
What is the Mercy Model?
The Mercy Model is a highly adaptable coaching process designed to help you discern and apply the Lord’s mercy to your specific area of focus within your specific season of life.
Its twelve stages span eight sessions, function as locks (like those that make it possible for a canal boat to reach higher and higher planes), and progress through a comprehensive set of both interactive and on-your-own exercises.
Ultimately, this prayer-drenched journey yields a well informed, deeply personal, and ruthlessly practical plan to which you become accountable and for which you are inspired and motivated.
The twelve locks include:
Lock 1
Naming Mercy
We define terms and crystallize the role of the Lord's lovingkindness in your entire endeavor.
Lock 2
Remembering Mercy
We look back to identify the major moments when God's mercy broke into your life.
Lock 3
Lamenting Mercy
We look back to note some of your life’s most significant missed opportunities in order to stoke conviction for the days ahead.
Lock 4
Imagining Mercy
We dream about a preferred future in which you respond to the Lord's mercy in ways that make specific outcomes a reality.
Lock 5
Modifying Mercy
We examine the dream and its outcomes a second time to adjust and account for new revelations.
Lock 6
Managing Mercy
We assess the dream and its outcome again to align it with both your current skill sets and your realistic capacity levels.
Lock 7
Mapping Mercy
We develop a clear and comprehensive plan for living into these imagined, modified, and managed mercies.
Lock 8
Maximizing Mercy
We revisit the plan with a critical eye to ensure it includes everything it needs and nothing it doesn't.
Lock 9
Mooring Mercy
We anchor your plan to the promises of God so that it withstands the winds and waves of life.
Lock 10
Measuring Mercy
We build accountable metrics into your plan to ensure faithful follow-through and certain success.
Lock 11
Mobilizing Mercy
You take one carefully selected first step to establish an early victory and to gain initial momentum.
Lock 12
Multiplying Mercy
You integrate the plan into your life and begin reaping the rewards of your efforts working in tandem with the Lord's ongoing mercy.